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    Minora Ngwa Eng. 1020 Compare and Contrast. 10/24/13. “My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the Sun (1609) & “How Do I Love Thee?” (1850). The poems “How do I love Thee” and “My mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun” are beautiful Petrarchan sonnets with a common theme which is love. Both poets talk about his/her love for another person. Though they are Petrarchan sonnets‚ they both have their differences and similarities in their form‚ figures of speech and subject matter. ‘How

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    Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Critical Review Debayudh Chatterjee Reading in 2011 a compilation of 44 sonnets by perhaps the most essential Victorian woman poet‚ written in around 1846 and published in 1850‚ evokes much interest and introspection‚ especially when these poems have been subject to a great many amount of valuation‚ devaluation and criticism. Initially Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” had seen as collection of heart-melting love sonnets

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    In “Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun‚” William Shakespeare uses the literary devices of imagery and figurative language to show that people should be judged based on who they are‚ not on their looks or what society says one should be like. To begin with‚ the text states‚ “If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head.” (I.iv) The author uses figurative language to show how his mistress’ hair looks like. He compares her hair to wires which aren’t typically compared to hair

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    SONNET 29 William Shakespeare When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes‚ I all alone beweep my outcast state‚ And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries‚ And look upon myself‚ and curse my fate‚ Wishing me like to one more rich in hope‚ Featured like him‚ like him with friends possessed‚ Dearing this man’s art‚ and that man’s scope. With that most enjoy contentend least: Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising‚ Haply I think on thee‚ and then my state Like to the lark at

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    Sonnets Shakespeare`s sonnets have dramatic elements and each poem is about personal theme. No one knows if in these poems’s he talks about his own experience or not‚ because no one knows enough about his life. The sonnet 116 attempts to define love. Speaker tries to explain what love is and what it is not. In the first line he says that love is perfect – “the marriage of true minds”- and it can be true and it cannot. This is ideal‚ because people want to have perfect love‚ but it`s never work

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    The art of seduction has been accomplished in numerous ways throughout history and has always remained dependent on the assumed appeal of the person being seduced. In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”‚ the genre of Carpe Diem was exemplified with a largely satirical approach. In doing so‚ the speaker tried to appeal to his mistress by appealing to ethos with Aristotle’s first version of ethos‚ appeal of your own good character‚ more specifically‚ will-power or arete‚ as well as Aristotle’s second version

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    The Spenserian Sonnet was named for Edmund Spenser 1552-1599‚ a 16th century English Poet. The Spenserian Sonnet inherited the tradition of the declamatory couplet of Wyatt / Surrey although Spenser used Sicilian quatrains to develop a metaphor‚ conflict‚ idea or question logically‚ with the declamatory couplet resolving it. Beyond the prerequisite for all sonnets‚ the defining features of the Spenserian Sonnet are: a quatorzain made up of 3 Sicilian quatrains (4 lines alternating rhyme) and

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    Sonnet CXXX is yet another love sonnet that’s Shakespeare has written although it’s a pleasure to read for its simplicity and frankness of expression. Its message is simple and direct which is the dark lady’s beauty cannot be compared to the beauty of a goddess or to that found in nature‚ for she is but a mortal human being This is what made the poem memorable and famous which is for its blunt but charming sincerity. "I grant I never saw a goddess go; / My mistress‚ when she walks‚ treads on the

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    Honors English 11/28/12 Clouds Go Away - Sonnet Why is the sky so grey? The clouds are hurt toddlers‚ so sad. They cry like they are teenage girls having a bad day. They rumble like the sun betrayed them and left them mad. The sun is a treat‚ so delightful. It brings nothing but warmth

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    love in sonnet 116 and sonnet 130?’. The sonnets that are focused is ‘Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds’ and ‘Sonnet 130 - My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’. First I would like to quickly review what the definition of a sonnet is. Two kinds of sonnets have been most common in English poetry‚ and sonnets were named after the two famous poets. The Petrarchan sonnet and the Shakespearean sonnet. Since my presentation is focused on specific Shakespearean sonnets‚ I will

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